The world’s biggest handset vendor, Nokia, is the latest gadget maker to jump on the app store bandwagon, announcing plans to open its own marketplace in May. Billed as an extension of its mobile services platform, the Ovi Store will allow content providers and developers to upload their own applications and sell their wares to [...]
The mobile broadband market will continue its rapid growth during the next five years, with Europe counting 148 million connections by 2014. Figures released by analyst house Analysys Mason on Friday forecast that mobile broadband connections in Europe will account for almost half of all broadband connections, including fixed line, in the region by 2014. [...]
Korean gadget vendor Samsung has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first solar powered phone, to be launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. The Blue Earth device has a solar panel located on the back of the phone, which Samsung claims can deliver enough juice to allow users to make a [...]
The chip giant formed of the merger of STMicroelectronics and the mobile platform division of Ericsson was reborn on Thursday as ST-Ericsson. Acknowledged by analysts as the biggest consolidation in the chipset market so far, the 50/50 joint venture claims to have the industry’s strongest product offering in semiconductors, supplying components to Nokia, Samsung, Sony [...]
UK carrier BT posted a whopping 81 per cent drop in pre-tax profits for the last three months of 2008, and warned of the possibility of further “substantial” write downs in the coming year. Profit for the quarter to end December 31 came in at £113m, compared to £601m in the same period a year [...]
Australian carrier Telstra extended its presence in China this week with the acquisition of controlling interests in two mobile content and online music businesses. Telstra has acquired a 67 per cent interest in both China M and Sharp Point. China M is a supplier of consumer mobile content serving 350,000 customers daily, while Sharp Point [...]
With global mobile device shipments in decline, the world’s biggest handset vendor is feeling the pinch. On Wednesday Nokia said it is closing one of its research and development sites in Finland and temporarily laying off workers at another. The Finnish firm plans to close the Jyvaskyla site and concentrate mobile devices R&D in Finland [...]
Mobile operator O2 UK, which is owned by Spanish carrier Telefonica, said this week that it has appointed Shaun Gregory as managing director of its media business. Gregory presently holds the position of chief executive for the UK unit of ad-funded MVNO Blyk. At O2, he will be responsible for the operator’s overall media strategy [...]
Web giant Google has tapped up its software nemesis, Microsoft, for access to ActiveSync, a protocol which will see Google services info delivered to the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. The newly announced Google Sync platform allows users to get their Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events onto their phone, and now extends that functionality [...]
MTS, the largest mobile operator in Russia and the CIS has bought high street retail chain Telefon.Ru outright for $60m. Telefon.Ru operates 512 stores in 160 Russian cities, selling airtime contracts, handsets and other consumer electronics. The $60m price tag includes $25m for inventory reserves, MTS said, and will be supplemented by a further $25m [...]
A step in the right direction but does it go far enough?
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I agree with Dan about this being a excellent read, and that QNX is not well known but sooner or ...
Excellent read with some actual facts compared to the hack journalist/bloggers on the interest. Many don't understand what QNX ...
The main issue with Telenor is that whether they made underhand payments to ge the licenses. If they did, then ...
Over The Top providers have become the staple wildcard in almost any sector set on a collision path with mobile. By and large they are very good at what they do: connecting a user with their chosen content or service by whatever means available.
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